[OldSmaj]

The only question is, will it shoot?

At least once.

The VC made copies of the 1911 out of C-rat cans and landing mats.

While I never saw one of the "copied" ones personally, I did see a "recovered" 1911 that had been adapted to a .38 cartridge.

The magazine was, literally, made of discarded C-rat cans.

The last I knew of it, it was residing in a SF museum somewhere.

But the whole point of the copies and re-manufacturing is to use it to take a real, working weapon from the opposition.

Something we tried to teach the French Resistance in WWII with the manufacture of the two-shot Liberator.

[treetopsandroofs]

“Something we tried to teach the French Resistance in WWII with the manufacture of the two-shot Liberator.”

The Liberator was a single-shot pistol, but “extra ammunition could be stored in the pistol grip.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator